Drones in the Age of Excessive Autonomy: Concluding Remarks

In 2012, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) warned about the proliferation of autonomous weaponWeapon systems (Docherty, B. L. in Losing humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots. Human Rights Watch, 2012), which the U.S. Department of DefenceDepartment of Defense (DoD) (2023, p. 21) understands as “A weaponWeapon system that, once activated, can select and engage targetsTarget without further intervention by an operator”.